Titanfall 2 will launch this year – and here's how we know

OUT THIS YEAR: The Titanfall sequal might be coming to consoles a lot sooner than you think

At the start of February it was announced by EA that a brand new Titanfall game was coming to consoles.

Yes Plural, the game is coming to PS4 as well as Xbox one.

All of this was revealed when Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson was speaking during EA's post-earnings financial call.

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The problem though is that when it came to discussing the game at more length, Wilson reiterated that the next Titanfall game is scheduled to launch during EA's 2017 fiscal year.

That would mean Titanfall 2 is due to launch sometime between April 1, 2016 and March 31, 2017.

We would imagine it will be closer to 2017 because as Wilson pointed out: "you should assume that’s in the back half of the year as well because the second quarter [July-September] is so dominated by our sports titles."

From that it was safe to assume the game would launch at some point early 2017.

However recent events could mean we get to see it this year.

Firstly, Mass Effect Andromeda has seemingly been pushed back, despite no official announcement having been made.

Developers Bioware have been billing the game as coming in the 2016 holiday period.

However, speaking at a recent business summit, EA CFO Blake Jorgensen was quoted as referencing Q4 as the game’s official launch window.

But if "Q4" does in fact reference the fiscal fourth quarter, that would mean Mass Effect 4 would not arrive until between January to March 2017.

And no matter how many sports titles EA release later this year, that would leave a gaping hole in EA's 2016 holiday season.

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FOR SALE: The Game has been listed for pre-order on Gamestop

It's also a little curious that Gamestop has been spotted by eagle-eyed gamers putting up marketing material in some of its stores for Titanfall 2.

It's nothing flash, just a few boxes with placeholder imagery, but it's something, and you assume that request has come from on high in the company.

Equally, the unannounced sequel is also available to preorder on the online Gamestop stores with a release date of 31 December 2016.

Though we'd suspect that would be moved forward considerably.

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IN STORE: It's also been spotted in Gamestop shops

Either way, it's likely that we'll find more about the game at EA Play, Electronic Arts new event to be held at E3 in June later this year.

And at the same time, we'll likely be able to get some sort of update on the next Battlefield, further expansions to Star Wars Battlefront and maybe even some more info on Mass Effect Andromeda too.